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First Baptist Church of Farmers Branch just celebrated its 138th birthday . That’s my childhood church in a Dallas suburb. It’s the church w...

With a frank television news interview , counselor Don Simpkins told of how he went to the media in Dallas years ago to try to warn people a...

Texas Monthly’s cover story is about a Baptist preacher accused of killing his wife. I don’t know whether he did it or not. But the investi...

A clergy abuse victim recently had second thoughts about disclosing an email she got from a top Southern Baptist official. Why? Because she ...

“The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t yet ready to respond” on the issue of creating a database of convicted, co...

In last week’s Nashville Scene article , Rev. Wade Burleson said something that caught my attention. He’s the Oklahoma pastor who actually d...

“What would Jesus say?” That’s the title of yesterday’s Nashville Scene article about how the Southern Baptist Convention has been respondi...

"And from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely. They have healed the wounds of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when th...

How do we get church leaders to hear the truth? We start by telling it. But how do we tell it in a way that they may hear it? Justice-seekin...

I’m still absorbing all that I heard at the Conference of the Lambs . I was honored to be invited as a speaker, but I feel as though I learn...

Dwayne Walker, who blogs about the clergy abuse scandal at Trinity, interviewed me last week and posted these excerpts on YouTube. Dwayne wi...

Saint Sulpice used to be one of my favorite Paris cathedrals. This was long before The DaVinci Code put it on tourist maps, and it was almo...